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Reed Brodsky is a partner in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s New York office. Brodsky is Co-Chair of Gibson Dunn’s Crisis Management Practice Group and a member of the Securities Enforcement and White Collar Defense and Investigations Groups. He is a nationally recognized trial lawyer and litigator best known for his success as lead trial counsel in two of the most high-profile white collar criminal cases in recent memory, United States v. Raj Rajaratnam in 2011, and United States v. Rajat Gupta in 2012. Since joining Gibson Dunn, Brodsky has been a lead trial attorney in four high-profile trials, representing Chevron Corporation in Chevron v. Donziger et al. in 2013, AlixPartners in AlixPartners v. Thompson et al. in 2014, AIG’s Lavastone Capital unit in Lavastone Capital LLC v. Coventry First LLC et al. in 2015, and Patriarch Partners/Lynn Tilton in SEC v. Patriarch in 2016. Before joining Gibson Dunn, Brodsky spent eight years serving as an Assistant United States Attorney in the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, where he won all seven of his white collar criminal trials and many non-white collar trials.

Brodsky’s areas of practice include trial work, white collar crime, securities enforcement proceedings, corporate internal investigations, compliance counseling and complex civil litigation. Brodsky has extensive experience representing institutions, hedge funds, issuers of securities, board committees and individuals in connection with investigations, litigation and SEC enforcement proceedings under the federal securities laws. Mr. Brodsky has counseled numerous hedge funds on securities trading and compliance matters.

Ken Yormark is a managing director for K2 Intelligence, where he leads the U.S.-based forensic accounting team. With more than 25 years of experience, he is an expert in complex global investigations and forensic and investigative services. Yormark has managed and conducted numerous, often high-profile securities fraud, anti-corruption/Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and Ponzi scheme investigations involving public and private companies in all industries around the globe. He has presented to regulatory and law enforcement agencies, boards, senior management, in-house and outside counsel and auditors.

In his practice, Yormark focuses on forensic accounting, financial investigations, securities litigation and anti-corruption risk assessments. He is skilled at validating and reconstructing fraudulent conveyances and assessing the vulnerability of management and accounting systems.

James Ruotolo is the Director of Industry consulting with SAS where he helps financial services companies deploy analytics for AML, Fraud, Risk and Customer Intelligence. Previously, he served as the Director of Products and Marketing for Fraud and Security Intelligence solutions at SAS. In this role, he was responsible for leading product management, product marketing and customer programs for the global fraud and security intelligence solution portfolio.

Before joining SAS, he was the Director of SIU Strategic Operations for the Special Investigations Unit (SIU) for The Hartford Financial Services Group, where he built an analytical and intelligence operation within the SIU.

He is a Certified Fraud Examiner and an internationally recognized public speaker with a Bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice and a Master’s degree in Economic Crime Management.

Brian Castelli is a Principal at PwC, where he leads PwC’s Fraud and Economic Crimes Integrated Solution and is part of the Forensic practice. He has a history of helping Fortune 500 companies and leading financial institutions manage fraud and other risks, and meet regulatory compliance objectives.

He has helped institutions develop sustainable approaches to management of fraud and other risk and regulatory obligations, including fraud program transformation, fraud risk and controls assessment and remediation, controls testing and red teaming, fraud technology selection and deployment, and development of analytic models for fraud detection. He helps companies reduce fraud risk and losses, enhance revenue by reducing friction associated with fraud controls, and reduce the operational cost of fraud programs and controls.

Castelli has also worked with clients and client counsel to investigate allegations related to internal and external fraud and other matters including, fraud ring attacks, asset misappropriation, misrepresentations, collusion, bribery and corruption, securities trading violations (insider trading, market manipulation), money laundering, regulatory compliance matters, among other areas.

As a specialist in the use of applied data analytics for anti-fraud, compliance, and investigative purposes, Castelli’s experience includes multi-jurisdictional data gathering, analysis of structured and unstructured data, “big data” analytic approaches, and machine learning approaches. He was awarded a U.S. Patent as an inventor of a fraud detection system.

Brian is a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS), and an Oracle Certified Professional (OCP), and has been the recipient of PwC's Chairman's Award for excellence in client service.

Marc Goodman is a New York Times Best-Selling author, global strategist and consultant focused on the profound change technology is having on security, business and international affairs. He is the founder of the Future Crimes Institute and currently serves as the Chair for Policy, Law and Ethics at Silicon Valley’s Singularity University. Over the past twenty years, he has built his expertise in international cyber crime and terrorism working with organizations such as INTERPOL, the UN Counterterrorism Task Force, NATO and the U.S. Government.

Goodman frequently advises industry leaders, security executives, start-ups and global policy makers on transnational cyber risk and intelligence and has operated in more than 75 countries around the world. His professional experiences include working as a street police officer, undercover investigator and counter-terrorism strategist, as well as briefing myriad cabinet ministers and heads of government, including the White House. Goodman’s current areas of research include the security implications of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data, robotics, cryptocurrencies, synthetic biology, virtual reality and the Internet of Things.